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work) prove that we are justified in holding to our 
opinion that this is the true gateway to the Pole :— 
“ Our plan of travelling being nearly the same 
throughout this excursion, after we first entered 
upon the ice, I may at once give some account of 
our usual mode of proceeding. It was my intention 
to travel wholly at night, and to rest by day, there 
being, of course, constant daylight in these regions 
during the summer season. 
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“ The only disadvantage of this plan was, that the 
fogs were somewhat more frequent and more thick by 
night than by day, though even in this respect there 
was less difference than might have been supposed, the 
temperature during the twenty-four hours undergoing 
but little variation. This travelling by night and 
sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural 
order of things, that it was difficult to persuade our¬ 
selves of the reality. Even the officers and myself, 
who were all furnished with pocket chronometers, could 
not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-four 
hours we had arrived; and there were several of the 
men who declared, and I believe truly, that they never 
knew night from day during the whole excursion.”^ 
* Had we succeeded in reaching the higher latitudes, where the 
change of the sun’s altitude during the twenty-four hours is still less 
